Serial rape suspect from Elmsford accused in fourth attack

7:28 PM,
Apr. 9, 2013

Silvio Raul Illescas

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An Elmsford construction worker charged in the violent sexual assaults of three prostitutes earlier this year was accused Tuesday of another sexual assault, on a fourth woman he approached in Greenburgh in 2011. Silvio Raul Illescas, 40, ordered the woman into his car before choking and assaulting her in a secluded area behind a Home Depot in Yonkers, authorities said.

Illescas has been held since March 4. On Tuesday, he pleaded not guilty in Westchester County Court to a grand jury indictment charging him with 28 felony counts, including predatory sexual assault, attempted murder, rape ...